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BBC's h2g2 Goes Mobile - Again

Posted by timothy on from the as-well-it-ought dept.

zaktheduck writes "According to a recent press release, in anticipation of the new movie and the h2g2 website's sixth birthday, the BBC have relaunched the long-shelved h2g2 Mobile service. The new version of the popular community website allows access to the 7000+ and growing edited guide entries from PDAs, and smartphones. H2g2 had a WAP service back in 2001, aptly named "h2g2 on the Move", but was cancelled when the company faced financial trouble and was purchased by the BBC. Here's a copy of the old promotion page for the service."

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  1. Re:I HAD SEX WITH A CHEESE GRATER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just to clarify, the trolls above this one were not my doing. I may be an immature dumbass, but I like to put, at the very least, a vague amount of thought into pissing people off. After posting this, I noticed that there were several crappy trolls above mine that also had their subject in all caps. Just wanted to make that clear. Not that it matters.

  2. Re:hg2g has always been mobile by ColGraff · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Off-topic, but: I gotta say, your sig makes Soviet Russia appear quite pleasant. I'd certainly like to be welcomed by new overlords. I say we urge Putin to bring back the USSR.

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  3. The guide to everything... but character encoding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    View > Source

    You ain't gonna fit alot of "everything" or even "universe" with ISO-8859-1. Not even gonna fit a Euro sign in there. Use UTF-8 for crying out loud!

    It's somehow amazing that an organisation with the resources of the BBC can fail to understand basic issues like this on their web sites. It get's even better when you head to http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/arabic/news/ and discover "windows-1256"

  4. Re:hg2g has always been mobile by RevAaron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I say we urge Putin to bring back the USSR.

    Dare I say that might be a good idea, so much as it's not the USSR past 1925 or so. All power to the Soviets! This time, for real! Not just to the Politburo or General Secretary/Chairman of the Presidium.

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